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  1. Agencies & Vendors

How RangeMe Leveled the Playing Field for This Startup Bandage Brand

The bandage category is not an easy one to break into. Scan the first aid aisle of any store and you’ll see a wall of products that are primarily from a couple of national brands or else are the retailer’s private label products. Beginning in March, however, you’ll find colorful and playfully-designed boxes of bandages […]
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Cannabis Advocacy Groups Combine to Deliver High-Potency Lobbying

Effective today, the National Cannabis Roundtable (NCR) and the U.S. Cannabis Council (USCC) will combine, bringing together two organizations representing multi-state and single-state cannabis operators, retailers, ancillary businesses and advocacy organizations on Capitol Hill. The combined organization, to be known as the U.S. Cannabis Roundtable, will represent operators across 38 states and a substantial number […]
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Tracee Ellis Ross on Innovation, Team Building and Why ‘Challenge’ Marketing is Broken

Actress Tracee Ellis Ross started building her vision for Pattern Beauty while starring on the sitcom Girlfriends, but it was her lifelong experience as a “curly girly” (a woman with curled and coiled hair) that inspired the idea and was validated by generations of women with similar experiences. “I wanted to actually create products that […]
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  1. Retailer Media

How Smart Design will Shape the Future of Retail Media Networks

As retailers face the imperative of implementing a retail media strategy, the number of Retail Media Networks (RMNs) continue to grow. With a need to differentiate yet simplify their offering, retailers face increasingly complex decisions about whether there is room for them to play, and if so, how to build and roll out their vision. […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

DoorDash Pioneers Non-Traditional Food Distribution: A Grocerant Guru® Perspective

  The evolution of food distribution continues to challenge legacy grocery stores. DoorDash, the delivery platform originally known for restaurant meal delivery, has rapidly expanded into diverse product categories successfully according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Johnson asks, do your new food marketing ideations look more like yesterday than […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Cash withdrawals exceed £1bn at post offices for first time on record

New figures released today (13 January) reveal that for the first time on record, cash withdrawals at post offices exceeded £1bn in a single month. Post Office branches saw £979m worth of personal cash withdrawals over the counter in December and £35m worth of business… This story continues at Cash withdrawals exceed £1bn at post […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Generational Impacts on the Beauty Industry in 2025

The beauty industry’s resilience continues to shine. Among CPG and prestige retailers in the U.S., beauty outperformed total store sales across the remaining industries in 2024 – and in many cases drove stronger total store growth – showcasing that when beauty performs well, other industries rise. Even as economic sentiment declines, U.S. consumers continue to […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Some retailers would benefit from a TikTok ban in 2025

TikTok Shop took the market by storm in just two years. The social media platform sold more merchandise than Sephora [LVMUY] in late 2024 according to Earnest credit card data. TikTok Shop also handily outperformed during the 2024 holiday season. But a potential ban could result in brands losing access to a vital marketing and […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Ulta Taps Instacart for Same-Day Delivery

Ulta Beauty has teamed up with Instacart to offer same-day delivery from its more than 1,400 stores across the U.S. in as fast as one hour. Instacart customers can now shop a wide selection of skin care, hair care, cosmetics, fragrances and wellness products from Ulta. The partnership also integrates Ulta Beauty Rewards into the Instacart app, […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

How Brands from Walmart to Pacsun Have Harnessed the Power of Digital Twins

In its broadest and most straightforward definition, a digital twin is “a virtual replica of a physical object, person or process that can be used to simulate its behavior to better understand how it works in real life,” according to McKinsey. Digital twins are often linked to a data source; in some cases, that means […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

The rise of AR in retail: merging digital with physical

Augmented reality (AR) is transforming the retail landscape by seamlessly merging the digital and physical worlds. This technological evolution mirrors innovations seen in industries like online betting, where advanced features are redefining user engagement and creating immersive experiences. Similarly, retailers are increasingly adopting AR to enhance customer engagement, improve shopping experiences, and drive sales. A […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Hair You Go: Ulta Beauty Uses AI to Virtually Preview Potential New ’Do’s

Ulta Beauty has leveraged generative AI from Nvidia to provide customers with highly realistic previews of desired hairstyles and colors. To use the GLAMlab Hair Try On solution, shoppers on the Ulta website or mobile app can take a photo, upload a headshot or use a model’s picture to experiment with potential new looks. The […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Amazon Beauty’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday Surge: Key Brands and Categories to Watch

During Amazon’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BCFM) sales event, the beauty category saw significant sales growth across multiple segments. When comparing daily average sales during the event to the previous 90 days, perfume and cologne led the way with an impressive 165% increase, marking the highest year-over-year growth of any beauty category for the 2023 BCFM […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Experiential Retail Trends in Beauty: Embracing Pop-Ups and Immersive Marketing

The beauty retail industry is embracing experiential retail, a strategy that transforms shopping into an immersive and interactive experience. Experiential retail goes beyond simply buying products—it’s about creating memorable moments through activities, curated spaces, or interactive elements that engage customers on a deeper emotional level. Beauty pop-ups and flagship stores have become destinations, offering gamified […]
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  1. Department: HBC

Seth Rogen Brings Houseplant THC Seltzers to U.S.

Hollywood’s cannabis king is pouring up something new. Houseplant, the Los Angeles-based cannabis and lifestyle brand co-founded by actor and producer Seth Rogen, is moving into beverages with the U.S. launch of a four-SKU line of hemp-derived THC-infused flavored sparkling waters, available now in select markets and online.
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  1. Data & Insights

Promotions vs. Preferences: What Sephora’s November Event Tells Us About Beauty Brands in 2024

Promotions have significantly impacted the beauty market in 2024, with many shoppers increasingly pivoting their wallets to spend on discounted items. We took a closer look at Sephora’s November Sales Event and saw that while customers continue to favor some well-established brands, there were also some notable shifts in preference. The top selling brands during […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Holiday spending is flat so far in 2024, TikTok Shop pulls ahead

Holiday spending flat compared to 2023 Holiday consumer spending grew 0.1% YoY between November 1st and December 4th according to Earnest credit card data. This marks a deceleration from 2023, which had notched 1.1% YoY growth by this time. Contact Sales for details. Still, positive spending growth is a reversal from the early holiday period. […]
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  1. Data & Insights

5 CPG Trends Reshaping Commerce | DSI

“We encourage every consumer brand to do that forward-looking analysis and say, ‘Alright, how much growth do we think for our market?’ I would be willing to bet nine times out of 10, the majority of that growth is going to come from online channels. And so therefore, are you investing accordingly into that growth […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

DoorDash Adds Five Below, David’s Bridal to Retailer Portfolio

DoorDash will offer on-demand delivery from Five Below, David’s Bridal and Sports Basement just in time for holiday shopping. The platform has been adding a wide range of retailers to its portfolio throughout the past year, including Vitamin Shoppe, JD Sports, Camping World, Lowe’s, H Mart, Aveda and Mattress Firm. Starbucks incorporated a DoorDash delivery […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

AWS CEO Matt Garman Talks Amazon’s Big Bets In AI Chips, Reasoning, And Nuclear Energy

Amazon made a slew of big AI announcements early Tuesday. It said its Trainium2 chip would be generally available for AI training and inference. It debuted a new reasoning tool to limit hallucinations. It said it was building a new “ultracluster” with hundreds of thousands of GPUs that Anthropic — which it just invested $4 […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Banner Black Friday Sales Bode Well for Holiday Season

Easing inflation, the looming threat of potential tariffs and heavy discounting saw Americans spend in record numbers over the Thanksgiving weekend, with U.S. retail sales (excluding automotive) up 3.4% on Black Friday according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which measures in-store and online retail sales across all payment types. Online sales saw an even bigger bump, with […]
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Shoppers believe best holiday deals are after holidays

A good number of consumers, over 77%, believe there are better deals available after the holidays, and nearly 51% plan to take advantage by making a large purchase in late December and January. Those are top findings from a Holiday Green survey, from CouponCabin, regarding consumer habits in the post-holiday time frame. When it comes to post-holiday […]
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2025 Outlook: A Snapshot into Ad Spend, Opportunities, and Strategies for Growth

IAB’s 2025 Outlook: A Snapshot into Ad Spend, Opportunities, and Strategies for Growth offering an early glimpse into ad spending trends for the coming year. The report is a must-read to gain and understanding of brand and agency buyers’ growth strategies and the challenges they foresee. The report covers: 2025 projections for the market overall […]
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  2. Technology & Innovation

AI at the retail edge: What’s possible now

There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) and how these technologies are going to revolutionize retail. But the retail revolution can’t be accomplished with sweeping generalizations about putting more technology into stores. Successful retail outcomes are built using technology to solve specific challenges, expanding on wins and […]
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Some retailers would benefit from a TikTok ban in 2025

TikTok Shop took the market by storm in just two years. The social media platform sold more merchandise than Sephora [LVMUY] in late 2024 according to Earnest credit card data. TikTok Shop also handily outperformed during the 2024 holiday season. But a potential ban could result in brands losing access to a vital marketing and […]
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